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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. You can also follow my personal adventures on Bluesky.

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Airline Tycoon Deluxe has landed in the Ubuntu Software Centre

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2012

Good news for Ubuntu fans worldwide! Airline Tycoon Deluxe has landed in the Ubuntu Software Centre! Thomas from Runesoft mailed ...

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Website hit by spam attack

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2012

Okay so today we got hit by a rather large spam attack I am currently dealing with. I have banned most of the spammers but still going through the list and also added a much more powerful captcha (you now have to play a small game to registe...

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Steam big picture from login!

By Liam Dawe, 15 Nov 2012

This is something worth looking into, omgubuntu reported on a github page here by "thor27" where you can in Ubuntu install a Steam Big Picture session so when you login all you ...

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Unity3D 4.0 Now Available With Linux Exporting

By Liam Dawe, 15 Nov 2012

Unity3D the awesome game engine has official released 4.0 including the much requested Linux publishing support which will hopefully pave way for many more Linux titles!

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Distance (Nitronic Rush spiritual succesor) fully funded!

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2012

Distance the futuristic arcade racing game that

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Q&A with Hero-U's Corey & Lori Cole

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2012

Todays question time is with Corey from the Hero-U Kickstarter a sort of Adventure/RPG 2D hybrid! They are looking to get to $400,000.

Killing Floor and Red Orchestra on Steam for non-BETA users

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2012

Good news everyone! The wise folk over at Tripwire have put up the binaries for Killing Floor and

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2 new Kickstarts to whet your appetite!

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2012

Okay so since so many emails it's time to start condensing the amount of news posts as it's just flooding our front page! Note to self: Find a way to condense the front page so we can fit more in without making it look crap, if...

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Q&A with Interstellar Marines devs!

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2012

So it's been a while since I personally did a question time with anyone, this week the developers behind the Interstellar Marines are up! Interstellar Marines is an in development FPS for L...

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Humble Bundle For Android 4!

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2012

The Humble Bundle For Android 4 has been released! As usual includes the Linux builds too!

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Latest Indie Royale bundle has a whopping 1 Linux game!

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2012

Well folks it's The Harvest Bundle time from Desura (indieroyale) this bundle includes one game available for Linux named

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Runesoft brings Airline Tycoon Deluxe to Desura!

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2012

We reported before on Runesoft bringing the games they ported to Linux over to Desura well now they have their second gam...

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Pier Solar HD RPG coming soon!

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2012

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Mojang's Scrolls will be on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2012

Steam Closed Beta Now Live!

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2012

Thanks to the Steam group chat it has been revealed that Steam will go live today when someone pointed this out, the news comes thanks to

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Submit your questions for me to ask the Interstellar Marines guys

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2012

So I have an email sitting in my inbox ready to be replied to from the Interstellar Marines guys. Ever wanted to to ask them a ...

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Steams Linux support section is live and the linux icon is here

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2012

For those (like me) that had no idea Steams Linux support section is now up! This ones interesting: QuoteCurrently, Steam for Linux supports Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with the Unity desktop. Additional distribut...

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OpenXcom 0.4.5 released!

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2012

OpenXcom is a favourite open source project of mine, it's an open source engine that can run the original X-Com game (You can buy that on

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Last Reminder - Help Monster RPG 2 get open sourced!

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2012

Monster RPG 2 is looking to get open sourced and needs your help, right now the best way really is to vote here -> http://magicpi...

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Indie Buskers game jam #2 about to start!

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2012

Indie Buskers is a group of indie developers who previously did a game jam and they are in a couple minutes doing game jam number 2! QuoteWe're a group of e...